{"id":17899,"date":"2024-12-06T18:57:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17899"},"modified":"2024-12-06T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:34:26","slug":"in-mexico-heat-waves-are-even-killing-younger-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17899","title":{"rendered":"In Mexico, Heat Waves Are Even Killing Younger Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s not the just the elderly. More than three-quarters of heat-related deaths in Mexico occurred among people younger than 35, researchers reported.<\/p>\n

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As climate change pushes global temperatures higher, attention has focused predominantly on the threat that heat poses to older adults<\/a>, whose physiology makes them more susceptible to health complications.<\/p>\n

But a study published on Friday in the journal Science Advances found that certain types of young people \u2014 including seemingly hardy working-age adults \u2014 may also be particularly vulnerable to rising temperatures.<\/p>\n

The researchers analyzed deaths in Mexico from 1998 to 2019 and discovered that people younger than 35 accounted for three-fourths of heat-related fatalities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese age groups are also quite vulnerable to heat in ways that we don\u2019t expect even at temperatures that we don\u2019t think of as particularly warm,\u201d <\/em>said Andrew Wilson, a first author of the paper and an environmental social scientist at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Measuring heat-related deaths is complicated, since death certificates rarely name heat as a cause. A proximate cause of death, like cardiovascular failure, is often listed instead.<\/p>\n

To get around this, Dr. Wilson and his colleagues used a common statistical approach to estimate how daily mortality rates across Mexico change in response to fluctuations in the \u201cwet bulb\u201d temperature<\/a>, a measurement that uses humidity and air temperature to capture how well humans can cool their bodies through sweating.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not the just the elderly. More than three-quarters of heat-related deaths in Mexico occurred among people younger than 35, researchers reported.As climate change pushes global temperatures higher, attention has focused predominantly on the threat that heat poses to older adults, whose physiology makes them more susceptible to health complications.But a study published on Friday in the journal Science Advances found that certain types of young people \u2014 including seemingly hardy working-age adults \u2014 may also be particularly vulnerable to rising temperatures.The researchers analyzed deaths in Mexico from 1998 to 2019 and discovered that people younger than 35 accounted for three-fourths of heat-related fatalities.\u201cThese age groups are also quite vulnerable to heat in ways that we don\u2019t expect even at temperatures that we don\u2019t think of as particularly warm,\u201d said Andrew Wilson, a first author of the paper and an environmental social scientist at Stanford University.Measuring heat-related deaths is complicated, since death certificates rarely name heat as a cause. A proximate cause of death, like cardiovascular failure, is often listed instead.To get around this, Dr. Wilson and his colleagues used a common statistical approach to estimate how daily mortality rates across Mexico change in response to fluctuations in the \u201cwet bulb\u201d temperature, a measurement that uses humidity and air temperature to capture how well humans can cool their bodies through sweating.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17901,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17902,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899\/revisions\/17902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}